Alan Grayson’s Joe Wilson moment

Was the Florida Democrat’s 'Republicans want you to die quickly' line worse than Wilson’s 'You lie!'?

First there was Rep. Joe Wilson’s “famous ‘You lie!’ outburst,” said the Albany, Ga., Herald in an editorial. Now we have Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) saying that “the Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick” (watch Grayson’s speech). Seriously, “are there any adults in the House?” Grayson’s “obnoxious” provocation was “every bit as boorish, classless, and childish as Wilson’s was”—and to top it off, Grayson voted to censure Wilson.

“I’m not going to defend” Grayson’s “over-the-top comments,” said Josh Marshall in Talking Points Memo. But “gimme a break”—how is this a “controversy when half the Republican elected officials in the country have been saying for the last couple months, as a statement of purported fact, that the Democrats want to institute ‘death panels’ that will euthanize or deny care” to the elderly and infirm?

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